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Table 2 Frequency of family meals with ‘respondent and child’ or ‘everyone who lives in the house’ eating together and comparison by SEP (responding parent education level)

From: Family meals with young children: an online study of family mealtime characteristics, among Australian families with children aged six months to six years

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Snacks

Respondent and child eating together

  < 1 day/week

8%

5%

6%

8%

 1-2 days/week

12%

19%

7%

19%

 3-4 days/week

17%

34%

10%

35%

 5-6 days/week

21%

23%

18%

18%

 7 days/week

43%

20%

59%

20%

 Odds ratios (CI)

1.05 (0.79-1.39)

0.83 (0.62-1.20)

0.77 (0.57-1.03)

1.02 (0.78-1.34)

Everyone who lives in the house eating together

  < 1 day/week

17%

14%

6%

17%

 1-2 days/week

37%

63%

12%

52%

 3-4 days/week

17%

15%

14%

21%

 5-6 days/week

11%

5%

24%

6%

 7 days/week

18%

3%

43%

4%

 Odds ratios (CI)

1.20 (0.93-1.56)

1.20 (0.74-1.39)

0.70 (0.54-0.92)*

0.91 (0.69-1.20)

Sum of frequencies across the week (occasions per week)

Respondent and child

 

Everyone who lives in the house

 <7

4%

 

17%

 

 7- < 14

16%

 

48%

 

 14- < 21

37%

 

26%

 

 21-28

43%

 

9%

 

Coefficient (CI)

−0.22 (1.20-0.76)

 

−0.29 (CI −1.13-0.55)

  1. *Indicates p ≤0.05